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BERLIN — The father of a 17-year-old German exchange student shot dead in Montana criticized the gun culture in the U.S. Thursday.
“America cannot continue to play cowboy,” Celal Dede told the German news agency dpa after arriving in the U.S. to arrange the transport of his son Diren’s body back to Germany.
Dede said he had never imagined his son could be shot for simply entering somebody’s property.
“I didn’t think for one night that everyone here can kill somebody just because that person entered his backyard,” Dede said.

Employment prospects for young people have gotten much worse since 2000, but those prospects vary from place to place. The Brookings Institution just released a comprehensive report on the state of youth employment and unemployment, and things are grim. They found that employment among teenagers and young adults has plummeted over the last decade.

If you were a teen today, there's a good chance you'd be finishing your homework on your smartphone on the way to school. At least, according to the eight New York City teenagers, all juniors or seniors in high school, that Stephanie Retblatt of Smarty Pants grilled about their productivity and work habits on stage at Business Insider's Ignition conference.

In June 2013, the number of people Age 16 or older in the United States who were counted as having jobs rose by 160,000 to 144,058,000. The biggest gains were claimed by Americans between the ages of 20 and 24, who saw their numbers in the workforce increase by 193,000 to 13,605,000, while American teenagers between the ages of 16 and 19 saw their seasonally-adjusted number in the workforce rise by just 24,000 to 4,469,000.